About Compliance Experts

We Didn't Get Here Overnight

In 2018, Compliance Experts provides the most complete, fully rounded offering of compliance solutions you will find on the market today, operating with global reach and supporting numerous very large organisations. But of course that’s not where we started. Our business has been at the forefront of the compliance industry for over 25 years, constantly adapting to meet the needs of our clients and the ever-shifting nature of the regulatory environment. We’ve built a vast bank of knowledge and experience which underpins everything we do, from our consulting services through to our Compliance Checkpoint software.

When you choose to work with us, you really are dealing with the compliance experts.

Forefront Of A New Industry

When Compliance Experts founder Paul Molenaar started his working life in local government, traditional government services were still almost exclusively provided by in-house government employees. In the mid-1990s, governments saw potential benefits in outsourcing work to the private sector. National Competition Policy was adopted by Australian federal, state and local government agencies and a trickle of outsourcing quickly became a flood.

Very soon governments at all levels had largely moved from the provision of services to the administration of them. The next step, not widely recognised by those outside government, saw governments downsizing their regulatory arms as well, with many industries being delegated responsibility to ‘self-regulate’ and/or ‘self-monitor.’

Governments soon found that while outsourcing could reduce administrative costs and allow them to focus on policy, they were frequently losing control of the quality of services being delivered to their constituents. Government agencies did not have the compliance frameworks in place to control and manage the risks associated with third parties providing what had traditionally been government services.

Having researched best practice throughout Europe, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, Paul and his partner Cindy saw an opportunity in all of this. They established Compliance Experts to provide auditing services for government, routinely checking that private sector providers and their appointed contractors were meeting their agreements, quality standards and due diligence in relation to safety and environmental responsibilities. Over time this business became trusted and highly regarded as the ‘eyes and ears’ of government.

Growth And Expansion

As it became apparent that many industries struggled with self-regulation, demand for the services of Compliance Experts continued to grow. We started processing high volumes of audits, often across multiple, geographically spread facilities.

Enquiries started to come in from private companies – suppliers to government – that lacked the compliance frameworks and systems needed to support their own internal compliance programs. Where those companies weren’t already being audited by Compliance Experts, we were able to provide them with professional consulting services to close the gaps.

A Comprehensive Compliance Platform With Global Application

In the 25 years since Compliance Experts was established, the compliance industry has grown enormously as regulatory requirements have become ever more complex.

We are proud to provide a comprehensive suite of compliance monitoring tools to government, industry, peak bodies and regulatory authorities across the globe: a single platform backed by the support of our extensive knowledge and experience.

We look forward with enthusiasm to the next chapters in our story, which will soon include a leading edge data validation service for the fast-growing peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology of blockchain.

Productivity

Compliance Checkpoint’s end-to-end workﬂow and automation replaces manual systems and individual spreadsheets, significantly reducing the cost of auditing and monitoring while providing significantly improved results. This extends to automation of licensing, accreditation and certification for regulators and peak bodies.

Prevention

Routine compliance checks, audits, inspections and assessments all prevent risk exposure in many areas such as product safety or quality control measures. Compliance Checkpoint’s automation features help make ‘routine’ the norm.

Participation

The simplicity and accessibility of Compliance Checkpoint including our mobile tools and secure, cloud-based architecture, enable an organisation to include many more people in the compliance workﬂow, including external parties such as contractors. For peak bodies this facilitates high levels of self-service for member organisations.

Personalisation

Compliance questionnaires are readily customised to your organisation’s specific needs, including variation, right down to the individual level. This allows the ﬂexibility of old manual approaches without compromising data integrity.

Prediction

Central collection and analysis of data over time significantly improves the usefulness of that data for identification and prediction of future risk. Prevent future disruptions through proactive risk mitigation.